TY - JOUR AU - Calvo Cabrero, María Paz AU - Sanz Serna, Jesús María AU - Sanz-Alonso, Daniel PY - 2021 SN - 0021-9991 UR - https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81820 AB - The leapfrog integrator is routinely used within the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method and its variants. We give strong numerical evidence that alternative, easy to implement algo-rithms yield fewer rejections with a given computational effort. When the... LA - eng PB - Elsevier KW - Hamiltonian Monte Carlo KW - Numerical integrators KW - Expected acceptance rate KW - Expected energy error TI - HMC: Reducing the number of rejections by not using leapfrog and some results on the acceptance rate DO - 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110333 ER -